Berit Svendsen, the CEO of Telenor’s CA subsidiary Conax is named executive vice-president of the group and CEO of the Norwegian business in a shake-up aimed at ‘enhancing innovation.’ Telenor said it was increasing its focus on delivering an “always-on experience” and was establishing a new Digital Services unit, headed by executive vice-president Kristin Skogen […]
Dr Abe Peled was recently promoted to Executive Chairman at NDS, and used his annual IBC press lunch to introduce his new CEO Dave Habiger. Peled said 2011 was proving to be a very important year for the television distribution business. “Topics like OTT seeming to be making headlines everywhere. We have been talking for […]
The normally quiet summer has been anything but this year. It has been full of Events. As a British Prime Minister from what we used to call ‘the ruling class’, replied when asked what caused him most trouble when in office: “Events, dear boy, events”. On that basis it has also been a bad summer […]
Sony Corp has picked a former official at the US Department of Homeland Security for the new post of chief information security officer, months after a massive hacking attack leaked information on 100 million user accounts on its games networks. Philip Reitinger, previously director of the US National Cyber Security Center, will become senior vice […]
BBC Worldwide has confirmed the appointment of a regional Executive Vice-President (EVP) for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Joerg Bachmaier. Bachmaier will be responsible for BBC Worldwide’s strategic development in EMEA (excluding the UK) and delivering new brands, products and services initiatives to drive future revenue growth across the region. Bachmaier comes aboard from […]
Michael Jackson, the former chief executive of Channel 4, has reportedly walked away from his role as chairman designate of SeeSaw, as a dispute over financing threatens the online TV venture’s future. Criterion Capital Partners, which bought SeeSaw from broadcast transmission firm Arqiva in early July, intended to bring in Jackson to lead a turnaround […]
In a move that has shocked the technology world, co-founder Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple’s Chief Executive Officer, with the company’s Board naming Tim Cook, previously Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, as the new CEO. Jobs has been elected Chairman of the Board and Cook will join the Board, effective immediately. His relinquishing of daily […]
Viasat Broadcasting announced that it has appointed Daniela Neumann as Vice President of Central Programming. Daniela Neumann is an experienced free-TV programming executive, having worked for LWT, ITV and Virgin Media Television, in production, commissioning and as channel controller. Most recently she has been the Acting Controller of Entertainment at ITV.
A letter from News Corp’s lawyers Harbottle & Lewis is going to make life extremely difficult for James Murdoch. The damning letter, revealed by the lawyers to a UK parliamentary enquiry, in effect confirms that bosses at disgraced newspaper the News of the World knew all about the now notorious phone-hacking methods, and that such […]
Samir Abdulhadi, the former head of Orbit, has been appointed chairman of Panther Media Group, which operates the Dubai-based Orbit Showtime Network. He succeeds Faisal Al Ayyar, who was previously the chairman of Showtime/Gulf DTH. Abdulhadi’s appointment is effective from August 10th. Abdulhardi is the Saudi Arabian Mawarid Group’s senior representative on the Panther board. […]